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Hello guys,

I am having issues making this game which has a lot of small images that I would like to load to the Touchshield Slide but g++ compiler (Antipasto) is not accepting the syntax to create an PImage array. (The Board is set to Touchshield Slide)

For instance, i want to use a for loop to change the names of the files uploaded but it throws an error for :

Code:

PImage[] stonePit = new PImage[21];
PImage[] kalaPit = new PImage[49];
int i;[shadow=red,left][/shadow]
void setup (){
 for (i=0; i <=TotalStone; i++)stonePit[i] = loadImage("Stonepit" + i + ".bmp");
 for (i=0; i <=TotalKala; i++) kalaPit[i] = loadImage("KalaStone" +  i + ".bmp");

The error being thrown is "error: expected unqualified-id before '[' token" at both PImage[] lines at the top where I am defining my PImage array and for both of the for loops, I am getting error code  "error: 'stonePit' was not declared in this scope" and "error: invalid operands of types 'const char*' and 'const." I've been working at this for hours and I am still not getting it. Maybe i need to do it without an array, but how do I dynamically point to different objects in the game?

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Code:

PImage[] stonePit = new PImage[21];
PImage[] kalaPit = new PImage[49];

Perhaps you need to do some research on how arrays are declared in C or C++, rather than C# or Java. Your [] are in the wrong place. Trey need to follow the array name, not the array type.

Code:

int i;[shadow=red,left][/shadow]

This line needs fixing, for sure.

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That makes sense, I just saw that way of initialization the pimage array on a processing website. (http://processing.org/discourse/beta/num_1192465513.html)

Here is what I've changed it to which seems to be the right way but the compiler throws this error.

Code:

PImage stonePit[] = new PImage[21];
PImage kalaPit[] = new PImage[49];

error: initializer fails to determine size of 'stonePit'
error: initializer fails to determine size of 'kalaPit'

Also, there is a second error here regarding the for-loop which throws this error below due to the way I am making a string " loadImage("Stonepit" + i + ".bmp")".
 

Code:

for (i=0; i <=TotalStone; i++)stonePit[i] = loadImage("Stonepit" + i + ".bmp");
 for (i=0; i <=TotalKala; i++) kalaPit[i] = loadImage("KalaStone" +  i + ".bmp");

I thought this would work in the Touchshield slide unless I have to hardcode it.

Error:

error: invalid operands of types 'const char*' and 'const char [5]' to binary 'operator+'
error: invalid operands of types 'const char*' and 'const char [5]' to binary 'operator+'

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That makes sense, I just saw that way of initialization the pimage array on a processing website.

Processing is Java-based.

Typically, the new operator in C++ returns a pointer. You need to have an array of pointers, and initialize the array elements in a loop.

In C++, + is not a concatenation symbol for strings. It is an addition operator. Adding an int to a string makes no sense. sprintf() is your friend.